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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pul). Doc. 



Yellow-billed cuckoo, 



Black-billed cuckoo, 



Hairy woodpecker, 



Downy woodpecker, 



Yellow-bellied sapsucker, 



Flicker, 



Whippoorwill, 



Kingbird, 



Crested flycatcher, 



Phoel)e, 



Olive-sided fl3'cateher, 



Wood pewee, 



Least flycatcher, 



Blue jay. 



Crow, 



Bobolink, 



Red-winged blackbird, 



Baltimore oriole. 



Bronzed grackle or crow 



blackbird, 

 American goldflncli. 

 Chipping sparrow, 

 Field sparrow. 

 Song sparrow, 

 Towhee, 

 American robin. 



Rose-breasted grosbeak. 



Indigo bunting, 



English sparrow, 



Scarlet tanager. 



Red-eyed vireo, 



Yellow-throated vireo, 



Warbling vireo, 



White-eyed vireo, 



Black-and-white warbler, 



Golden-winged warbler, 



Nashville warbler, 



Parula warbler, 



Yellow warbler. 



Magnolia warl)ler. 



Chestnut-sided warbler, 



Mary^land yellow-throat. 



Black-throated green warbler, 



American redstart, 



Catbird, 



Brown thrasher. 



House wren, 



White-breasted nuthatch. 



Chickadee, 



Wood thrush. 



Bluebird, 



Cedar waxwins;. 



Birds feeding on the White-marhed Tussoch Moth (Orgyia 

 leucostigma) . 

 Probably all the birds which feed upon the other hairy 

 caterpillars feed also upon this, but, as the opportunity for 

 observing this species has been limited, the list is given for 

 what it is worth. This species has become very destructive 

 to city shade trees since the introduction of the English 

 sparrow, which, eating few of these insects itself, has driven 

 out the native birds which formerly fed upon the caterpillars. 

 It is interesting to note that of late, in some parts of eastern 

 Massachusetts at least, the sparrow is not so obnoxious as 

 during the years immediately succeeding its introduction and 

 increase, and that a few of the native birds are returning to 

 their old breeding place. This may result in checking the 

 ravages of the tussock moth, which does little damag-e to 

 orchards, shade trees or woodlands where sparrows are scarce 

 and native birds plenty. 



